Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Part One: Sensing Religion
7. 1. The Breath of Lazarus in the Mocedades de Rodrigo 17
8. 2. Sabrosa olor : The Role of Olfaction and Smells in Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora 31
9. Part Two: Cognition and the Senses
10. 3. The Internal Senses in Don Quixote and the Anatomy of Memory 47
11. 4. Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache 66
12. 5. The Aesthetics of Disgust in Miguel de Cervantes and María de Zayas 94
13. Part Three: Perception
14. 6. Sight, Sound, Scent, and Sense: Reading the Cancionero de Palacio 123
15. 7. Treating Sensory Ailments in Early Modern Domestic Literature 141
16. 8. Cervantes’s Exemplary Sensorium, or the Skinny on La española inglesa 167
17. Part Four: Sensing Empire
18. 9. The Senses of Empire and the Scents of Babylon in the Libro de Alexandre 189
19. 10. Portuguese Scenes of the Senses, Medieval and Early Modern 209
20. 11. Eucharistic Thought and Imperial Longing in Portugal from Amadeus da Silva’s Apocalypsis Nova (1502) to António Vieira’s História do Futuro (1663–1667) 225
21. 12. Festive Soundscapes in Colonial Potosí and Minas Gerais 243
22. Part Five: Sensing the Urban
23. 13. Celestial Visions and Demonic Touch: García’s Inventions in La verdad sospechosa 265
24. 14. Motherhood Interrupted: Sensing Birth in Early Modern Spanish Literature 284
25. Bibliography 303
26. Contributors 333
27. Index 337
28. TORONTO IBERIC 345